university of americas – mexico
libraries are willing to share digital collections; face obstacles to build oai servers
goal is to have a server generator that automically creates an oai server
voai – for releational dbs
and xoai

keynote: jonathan zittrain – harvard university and university of oxford

google search: “milk supply terrorists”

security breach information act; law about metadata; 2003 if you are a company with a lot of data and it could be compromised, you must alert the users

ways ot protect personal data – borrow from ip?

Sysinternals blog – software can possibly spy to get habit usage

Soultion is to not continue fighting war – antispy, etc. but to think about privacy and the expression of your identity; often that means to contextualize data about you; different than traditional view of privacy; more accepting of open environment

You tube – encourage folks to broadcast yourself;

Mashups – podcast, music, etc. retracting any of this is difficult to do; ppl are willing to put themselves out there

Technological future makes it more difficult to retract, recall information

e.g. omniva – every email generated is encrypted; key generated for each day of the week; for a company, you would only have to destroy the key which destroys all relevant documents;

libraries decent point of control for distribution; libraries “best friends” to publishers/content providers/book sellers rather than adversaries; creating systems that ressemble systems like omniva; libraries would be where you to retrieve content rather than the “open jungle” of the web

libraries: what’s a library for? Are there commonalities between public, academic;

LOCKSS mentioned: mirror and synchronize across libraries

Libraries are so far the best hope for those in a position to release something; privacy with libraries; largest advances in digital library space from “left-field”

When to pull something back?

is running a library just about indexing? or is it like brewster kale?

what is the purpose of a library?

one conception: the fortress; keeping non-scholars away; filtering what's important and what's not; if there's no limit on what dig libraries store, is there a reason to discriminate?

cyworld – one of the most popular sites in the world in korea; wake up in the morning check the world's collective judgement about you; as you interact with ppl, they rank you;

systems of collective judgement for which library can play role in saying what information is credible; maybe the decision is not about whether to keep it; wikipedia ex: seigenthaler article that was removed. should the history have been removed? muhammad cartoon controversy – one of wikipedia's best moments that libraries and news have not done

history: late 1999 – provisional agreement – santa fe conventions – now we know this as OAI for metadata harvester; simplicity; does allow for complex features – exchange of native metadata structures; growing frustration with dublin core; repositories need new ways to interchange complex objects; demand for something more than oai; microsoft, mellon, etc. are interested in forming this new protocol; need new data model; framework must be intelligent about various objects; basic question:how do we enable communities who care?

– new model: 3 interfaces: obtain, harvest, put; e.g. submit surrogates -> available through harvest and obtain intefaces -> service is populated by harvesting surrogates -> need lightweight service registry (like an object catalog in a federation – we don't need this as the surrogates carry their own information)

visualizaton system wth hyperbolic trees; used for analytics – e.g., loking at a specific time period and % of bones found

28 studnets worked with the sytem for usabilty study; various tasks students performed

interesting feature of page: can save the breadcrumb path – well-liked by the students in usaiblity test

conclusions: approach dl based on dl theory;

lemmas : searching and browsing are the same; can produce the same results; go through a searching process and get a set of reseults and go through browsing, there's an inverse relationship; browsing results associated with a navigated path: relationships with the browsing sequences;

launch demo: combinFormation – can search rss feeds, flickr, allow crawling into, the web, web site; can have as many searches as you like; can put together information from more than 1 search; crawler paths: crawling deeper into each site and crawl anywhere (follows cross links)

(java based) socket connection btw browser and application

uses google to run the searches and then it will download pages from initial searches and images patch up with text – VERY COOL!!

when you mouse over the surrogate, there's structured metadata: location, the gist (what google said about the page), title

user can move images using the grab tool; resize; you can create the composition in the middle of hte page; the "cool space" just for user; the "hot space" is shared with the agent

MAIN THEME OF THE SYSTEM: users can create a composition of their own images and search results by drag and drop technology; this becomes the user space;

metadata: details on demail in context rather than forcing the user to look elsewhere; deployment was i a class called the "design process"; experimented with 182 students; asked them to use combinFormation (divided the class – group A & group B). could only use combinFormation on 1 project; findings: students did better on both parts of the assignment when using combinFormation;

can't really describe how incredibly new age and cool this product is!!! bouncing balls on an interactive display, push the ball and you get more information about the digital object or go directly to the original resource; can send yourself an email of the digital resource; can inspect digital channels; can create new concepts for saving as rss feeds

placed the galleries in the physical library at the desk, the refreshment areas; book-return matchine and moving these galleries to various parts of the city – reach users that don't come to the physical library;